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Mokelemys mbembe
Discussion
Both the generic and the specific name refer to the Mokle-mbmb, a water-dwelling mythological creature from Central Africa, generally associated with a reptilian form, and usually characterized by the presence of a relatively long neck, this being a common character for Pleurodira.
Taxonomy
Mokelemys mbembe was named by Pérez-García (2022). Its type specimen is MRAC rt15_eg_01, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sinda-Mohari crocodilians, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in the Sinda Beds Formation of the Congo-Kinshasa. It is the type species of Mokelemys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2022 | Mokelemys mbembe Pérez-García |
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†Mokelemys mbembe Pérez-García 2022
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Pérez-García 2022 | In addition, it shows the following exclusive combination of shell characters within Erymnochelyini: absence of a medial carapacial keel; six neurals; relatively long distal margins on the seventh costals, more than two times longer than those of the eighth ones; heptagonal first vertebral, with short latero-anterior margins, and wider than the nuchal; second vertebral approximately as wide as the third, these scutes lacking lateral rounded protrusions; first pair of marginals overlapping less than half the lateral nuchal margins; absence of extragular protrusions; relatively long gular, reaching the anterior area of the entoplastron. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Pliocene or 5.33300 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pliocene | Congo-Kinshasa (Orientale) | Erymnochelys sp. (type locality: 149168) |